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2001: the year of iPods, Wikipedia, and leaving the keys upon the table. It was also the best year in gaming history. Sega went out with a bang, Microsoft entered with a ring, Nintendo got purple and weird, and Sony dominated the living room by ...

Since around 2006, Nintendo has been on a hot streak. Two of its home consoles of the modern era (the Wii and the Switch) have gone on to become two of the best-selling consoles of all time, with the Wii shifting just over 100 million units and the . ...

2025 was a pretty huge year for indie games, wasn't it? Maybe the biggest ever? A few indies were nominated for GOTY awards against much bigger games. A sort of but not really indie game even won the lot! And then you had indie games dominating ...

The GBA probably isn't the first thing that comes to mind when you think of RPGs, but it does have plenty of all-time bangers. You know, your Final Fantasies, Golden Suns, and so on. But it does have a few more notable RPGs than you might realise in ...

The original PlayStation is like the ocean. Absolutely full of water. Wait, no. I mean the deeper into it you go, the more you'll discover things that no human eyes were ever meant to see. But the PS1 does have an absolute cavalcade of hidden gems .. ...

When you think of the Super Nintendo, what's the first thing you think of? If you answered "a Smith & Wesson," first of all, Mario Is Missing was not that bad. But it's not really accurate. There were only some first-person shooters on the SNES, and ...

The Xbox 360 really was a console that had the lot. It exploded right out of the gate to let you know that Microsoft weren't messing around when it came to this console stuff now they'd had a weird, wonderful experiment with the first Xbox. It's a .. ...